Glamour goddess Zsa Zsa Gabor dies at 99.Here are nine facts about Zsa Zsa Gabor, sometime actress and frequent bride, who died on Sunday at age 99.
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Gabor was born on February 6, 1917, in Budapest and had two sisters, Eva and Magda, who also moved to Hollywood to work in show business.
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She was possibly the first actress to be famous for being famous, and ended up having nine husbands. Her name is synonymous with Hollywood glamour.
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She appeared in more than 30 movies but eventually ended up in low-budget films with such titles as Queen of Outer Space and Picture Mommy Dead.
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In the final episode of the 1960s television series Batman, Gabor played a villainess who used hair dryers to steal information from men’s brains.
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She said she began calling everyone “dah-ling” because she had trouble remembering names.
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Gabor’s nine husbands were Turkish diplomat Burhan Belge; hotel magnate Conrad Hilton; actor George Sanders, who later married her sister Magda; New York businessman Herbert Hutner; oilman Joshua Cosden; Barbie doll designer Jack Ryan; her divorce lawyer Michael O’Hara; Count Felipe de Alba of Mexico; and Frederic Prinz von Anhalt.
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The marriage to de Alba was annulled because her divorce from O’Hara was not final at the time of the wedding.
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She was the author of the books How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, How to Get Rid of a Man, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Complete Guide to Men and One Lifetime Is Not Enough.
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Gabor once summed up her attitude toward marriage by saying: “Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.”